Cocaine and sex shame Sophie Anderton finds new love

After being exposed last year as a drug-taking call girl, model Sophie Anderton has got 2008 off to a better start by finding love with property developer Ed Buxton, 32.

In a message to him on the social networking website Facebook, Sophie, 30, gushes: "I love you so much, baby, for all the man you are and all the strength you have given me."

Perhaps Sophie has finally learned that the best things in life are free.

The leggy model checked into the Priory clinic just before Christmas after being exposed as a cocaine abuser and prostitute.

She was believed to be seeking treatment for cocaine addiction and severe depression after being exposed as a £10,000-a-night hooker by a Sunday newspaper, which also filmed her snorting three lines of cocaine.

At the time a family friend revealed: "Sophie is absolutely shattered. Everyone is terrified about her state of mind."

Sophie had defended the shocking allegations by telling pals that she just gets lonely and wanted to earn some money for her future.

A close confidant of the model, who made her name with Gossard bras, she was trying to get her to sort her life out once and for all.

A source said: "She's been screaming and crying down the phone to her friends yelling 'it's all over'. She has been beside herself.

"Sophie has hit rock bottom and she's terrified she's ruined her career forever.

"Sophie knows that she's been no angel in the past but she feels totally ashamed that she's been caught out like this."

Sophie lost a £100,000 modelling contract with Fake Bake after the scandal was revealed.